Rusty Burke wrote:
> Patrice pointed out for me an omission from my Robert E. Howard's
> Bookshelf (for which I have now made some more corrections and which
> will, hopefully, actually get posted to the web one of these days or
> another), concerning an oblique reference in some notes Tevis Clyde
> Smith had made in preparation for his (alas! never to be written)
> biography of his good friend REH. (I published these notes under
> Clyde's title of "So Far the Poet" in the Necronomicon Press chapbook,
> Report on a Writing Man and Other Reminiscences of Robert E. Howard,
> still available from NP.)
>
> Here's what Clyde wrote: "His defense of Milady de Winter and her son
> Mordaunt. ‘She was his mother’; We argued over this several times."
>
> Of course, as a lover of classic adventure and a fan of the Richard
> Lester 3 Musketeers movies, I knew that Milady de Winter was the wicked
> agent of Cardinal Richelieu's nefarious schemes (played lusciously by
> Faye Dunaway). But I was unfamiliar with her devoted son Mordaunt, so
> off to Project Gutenberg I hied me.
>
> Mordaunt is a major character in Twenty Years After, one of the sequels
> to The Three Musketeers. In the course of the novel, he learns what
> happened to his mother and sets out to avenge her. The following is the
> confrontation between Mordaunt and his uncle, the new Lord De Winter,
> from the Project Gutenberg edition of the story. In view of Clyde's
> assertion that Bob took Mordaunt's side, and that they argued over this
> "several times," I find this quite interesting.
>
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>
I say she was indeed, his mother.
Larry
